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RE: Official brand for Nehalem

jackspider — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:26:23 GMT

it wont be core i7 duo and core i7 quad
it will be Core i7 Quad and Core i7 oct XD yay

RE: Official brand for Nehalem

ricedg — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:43:29 GMT

It's all been marketing flimflam for a few years now.
For us enthusiasts there are the sweet spots, like the E7200 or not buying a Q9xxx as the Q6600 is just as good.

But basically it's hard to go wrong for most peoples needs.
Only caveat to that is sub £400 laptops, but even then my missus has no probs with a Celeron 1.7Ghz and VHB - just needed more ram which now comes as standard.

Lately my quest has been to find a laptop for a reasonable price that has a CPU that supports virtualization rather than raw power.
The T5500 is king of the £400 - £500 and damn good it is too, problem is it's taken over from the T7xxxx which is now the territory of mucho expensive kit.

Hey Ho, now Centrino 2 is out I'm hoping for some bargains to appear for Santa Rosa kit which is now so last Wenesday :P
BTW Centrino 2 is not worth worrying about unless you have a compatible Draft N wireless router.

RE: Official brand for Nehalem

Jason — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:42:02 GMT

I tend to think it's a completely random number, rather like the Athlon 64 FX numbers always were. It has no relevance to anything.

RE: Official brand for Nehalem

MartenReed — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:54:03 GMT

My theory for non-CR peeps :

1 - E1/E2
2 - E4
3 - E6
4 - Q6
5 - E7/E8
6 - Q9
7 - Ci7

RE: Official brand for Nehalem

Jason — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:04:38 GMT

Well, yes, the Core Duo was derived from the Pentium III, but the Core 2 Duo was a from-the-ground-up design (pretty much), with little resemblance to the Core Duo. With AMD now on its *10th* genetation (well, 9th, really), it seems bizarre that Intel would be trumpeting a 7th-generation design. The P4 was 7th-generation. The name makes absolutely no sense.

RE: Official brand for Nehalem

FreakShow! — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:17:59 GMT

I can't find where it was that I read it, so this is going to be from memory.

They believe that because the Core Duo was designed mainly from Intel P3s, it was labelled as a P68 (using the old Pentium number schemes).

So this is the next step to 7. Might have that wrong way round though.

[url=http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/11/nehalems-rolling-core-i7-start]Here's the story[/url]: so pick and choose whether to believe or not :)

RE: Official brand for Nehalem

Computer Dave — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:05:48 GMT

Strange name. I take it'll be this then?

Core i7 Duo and Core i7 Quad (and possibly Core i7 Octo?)

...or are they dropping the Duo/Quad moniker?...or are all 'Nehalems' quad core only?

Only thing is all the new socket designs!

RE: Official brand for Nehalem

Teafie — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:49:25 GMT

Ah yes, I saw that.

Cannot wait to get my hands on nehalem.

I tell you I'm suffering from cannot have burn out.:P

Official brand for Nehalem

Jason — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:03:42 GMT

Core 3? No, it seems. Core i7.

See here: [url]http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/intel-nehalem-corei7,news-28921.html[/url].

Wtf?